Meeting Jim

More volunteering time was spent today in two meetings. Firstly I went to the Canal forum to hear updates on the progression of the work in rebuilding the Stroudwater canal.

Then I went up to Stroud cemetery, on the top of the hill behind our home, which the Town council is responsible for managing. Jim was appointed as the new Green Spaces manager for the council only a couple of weeks ago. We have been reviewing various issues together and I went today to take photographs of the equipment, vehicles, the storage areas and the staff quarters.

Having said I would try to take more pictures of people, I asked if I could blip him today, and he kindly agreed. I continued using the automatic camera settings, as I had been doing for all the dark interior shots. I also used the wide-angle lens which still appears soft to me.

Jim is standing outside the old Chapels which were built as part of the cemetery complex in 1855. This door was originally an entrance to the Non-Conformists chapel, whilst a similar chapel adjacent to it was reserved for the Church of England. They are a prominent feature of the local landscape and offer these spectacular views across the valley to Rodborough Common, west to Doverow Hill, (seen here in the middle-distance) and beyond the Severn valley, the Forest of Dean and the mountains of South Wales.